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Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out.
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I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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You ask me, Did I like Arsenio? About as much as the Bicentennial.
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Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.
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It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, What did you do for the summer? I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
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You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, Do it a little louder! OK, you do it a little louder.
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Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?
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America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down.
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If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.
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